{"id":945842,"date":"2025-07-11T10:42:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T05:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=945842"},"modified":"2025-07-11T10:42:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T05:12:43","slug":"read-microsoft-execs-bitter-sweet-note-on-linkedin-in-may-i-celebrated-25-years-at-microsoft-today-however","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/11\/read-microsoft-execs-bitter-sweet-note-on-linkedin-in-may-i-celebrated-25-years-at-microsoft-today-however\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Microsoft exec\u2019s &#8216;bitter-sweet&#8217; note on LinkedIn: In May, I celebrated 25 years at Microsoft, today, however\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft began its largest layoff in over two years last week, cutting approximately 9,000 employees across multiple divisions including Xbox, with one veteran manager&#8217;s emotional LinkedIn post capturing the human cost of corporate restructuring. Chris Bynum, a Customer Success Account Management Manager who celebrated his 25th work anniversary just two months ago, became the face of the mass termination when his candid social media message went viral.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In May, I celebrated a significant milestone at Microsoft \u2013 25 years of dedicated service. Today, however, marks a bittersweet moment as I share that I have been laid off,&#8221; Bynum wrote in his LinkedIn post on .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft began its largest layoff in over two years last week, cutting approximately 9,000 employees across multiple divisions including Xbox, with one veteran manager&#8217;s emotional LinkedIn post capturing the human cost of corporate restructuring. Chris Bynum, a Customer Success Account Management Manager who celebrated his 25th work anniversary just two months ago, became the face of the mass termination when his candid social media message went viral. &#8220;In May, I celebrated a significant milestone at Microsoft \u2013 25 years of dedicated service. Today, however, marks a bittersweet moment as I share that I have been laid off,&#8221; Bynum wrote in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}